Unlikely allies: Britain, America and the Victorian origins of the special relationship

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Very Distant Cousins

1. The War Both Sides Won

2. Who Reads an American Book?

3. Trade, Immigration and the Transfer of Capital and Technology

4. Taking Liberties and Beacons of Freedom

5. Squabbles and Squalls: The Scramble for North America and the Diplomatic Relationship from 1815 to 1860

6. John Bull, Cousin Jonathan and Johnny Reb: Great Britain and the American Civil War, 1861-65

7. The Road to Rapprochement: Anglo-American Diplomatic Relations from 1865 to the First World War

8. Arguing Affinities; Debating Differences: British Politics and the United States in the Later Nineteenth Century

9. Towards a Transatlantic Culture

Conclusion: Closer Cousins?

Notes

Index